Helicotrema is a festival that presents a program of recorded audio pieces by a selection of international artists and authors. The event is curated by Blauer Hase in collaboration with Giulia Morucchio.

The expression 'recorded audio pieces' originates from a lack of terms, in the current cultural lexicon, to indicate such timeline-based formats using solely the audio component. Secondly, such expression reveals the will of the project to investigate the status of a certain space-time dedicated to the gathering of an audience in order to listen to a recorded audio piece. In this sense, if such gatherings are the elements that constitute a film festival, the possibility to question such festival format for audio pieces is yet to be explored. The production of a space-time dedicated to timeline-based audio formats is the main objective of this proposal.

Helicotrema moves from the observation that, in the field of contemporary art and – to some extent – of contemporary theatre, the last decade has witnessed a gradual comeback of interest in the forms of audio plays, audio dramas, audio documentaries and various kinds of timeline-based formats based only on an acoustic component.

Such formats share numerous features with classical radio plays, such as:
- the audience is expected to listen to the whole piece (differently from a gallery-specific sound installation);
- a precise common gathering for the audience is established (as it happens in film screenings);
- the piece involves, often, both spoken language and musical or sound elements;
- the piece presents a (be it fictional or documentary) timeline.